Re: DTV antennas?


On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:21:36 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:04:02 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:55:28 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:30:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm the same, I need touchy-feely to really understand something.
...Jim Thompson

Me too, but that has its limits. Quantum mechanics,

Aaaaargh! My least favorite subject. I couldn't grab a hold of those
little mothers ;-)

Sorry. Heisenberg figured it out. You can see them, but not touch
(measure) them. Or, you can touch them (measure), but not see them.

Oh, yes, Heisenberg and his principle ;-)


You'll just love quantum computing, where a bit (err... qubit) can be
either a zero, one, or both at the same time. No, it's not like
latchup.
<http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer>
It has great potential in cryptography, which is the art of turning
perfectly good data into useless garbage and back again.

Actually, I think I accidentally invented a quantum computing logic
gate. In addition to the usual AND and OR gates, I designed an IF
gate. The logic was "If I feel like, I will. Otherwise, I won't". I
thought of patenting the IF gate design but never bothered.

I think circuit design is like a foreign language... I can think
circuit design in my head ;-)

I used to have the same problem when I did design. I would wake up in
the middle of the night with some great insight, scribble something on
a handy note pad, and wonder what the hell I was thinking the next
morning.

I was worse than that. During the harried effort to get a
transient-proof alternator regulator, I called the night shift at
Motorola about 3AM, telling them I had the solution. They told me the
next day I was totally incoherent ;-)

However, I never even tried to design anything in my head. I
had to scribble it down. Unfortunately, that was often the table
cloth, newspaper, magazine, blackboard, back of the envelope, etc.
Same with the math. I just couldn't do it in my head. Predictably,
my desk was a mess of scribbled notes. Sample:
<http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/k6bj/K6BJ%20Repeater/slides/Documentation.html>

That also caused some interesting problems for me. My boss could look
at a tabular list of recorded data from some lab test and determine a
trend directly from the data. I couldn't do that. I had to draw a
graph to see what it looked like and where it was going.

Strangly, when it came to doing RF impedance matching, it was the
other way. I prefered to do it the long way, grinding the equations.
I never did bother to use a graphical Smith Chart solution.

Ok, so I'm weird.

I think that is a natural condition of the _real_ engineer ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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